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the extent of your opportunities, in rendering effectual the endeavors of the University of Virginia to perpetuate, in an accessible form, the unadulterated and indispensable sources of future history.
We have the honour to subscribe ourselves, With assurances of profound consideration and respect,
Your Obedient Serv'ts.
Geo. Frederick Holmes, Committee of the Faculty of the Univ. of Virginia. Jas. L. Cabell, Jno. B. Minor,